IRANIAN PRESIDENT REJECTS DIRECT TALKS WITH THE U.S. – This is in response to a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal
Iran rejects direct talks with the United States, the Iranian president said in response to a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal.
Speaking during a cabinet meeting, President Masoud Peze-sh-kian emphasised that Tehran is willing to continue indirect negotiations with Washington. Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump’s warning to make a deal or face military consequences.
In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. After Trump pulled out in 2018 and reimposed sweeping U.S. sanctions, the Islamic Republic breached and has since far surpassed those limits in its escalating program of uranium enrichment.
Western powers accuse Iran of having an clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy program. Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian energy purposes.
